Re: how to release new tmdns version?

Hi Freek,

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:27:56PM +0200, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
> Back in March I wrote:
> 
> >- If there are no objections within a couple of days, I make this patch, 
> > run autogen.sh again and make a new release of tmdns (0.5.2).
> 
> It's amazing how long a 'day' is, these days, isn't it? :-)

Indeed - anyway; I hope to be able to upload tmdns to Debian over the
next few days (probably another week or so).

> Notes: tmdns has not been maintained for over a year. tmdns 0.5.2 was 
> tagged in CVS, around February 2004, but was never released. Shortly 
> after, Andy did add some experimental netlink functions to tmdns, and 
> these are incorporated in this version. "configure --enable-netlink" to 
> enable. Unfortunately, it was not documented, and maintainced halted 

However - it is compiled whether or not is enabled. Something to be
aware off.

> Let me know if there are some downstream package maintainers which I 
> should let know about. I doubt it is much used.

Well I was about to write something similiar to tmdns - so your email
came as a pleasant surprise. This means, to me, we have the full bonjour
stack:

	- zeroconf/zcip: IPv4 link local address assignment
	- libnss-msdns: lookup names in .local (via multicast IPv4 /
	  IPv6)
	- tmdns/avahi: register names for lookup

I've looked (briefly) at avahi and it seems massively more complex than
tmdns; so I'll be looking at mdns more throughly shortly.

> 
> OK, back to zcip. Again, no promises on deadlines.

Well I released zeroconf 0.6.1 a while ago - which I believe is
essentially compliant with the specifications.  I realise that you are
not working on this; but any feedback you have would be very valuable
(to me at least).

Regards,
Anand

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